[HERn]

When I left I didn’t have parents to worry about. First it was just my wife and I shared my heart, conscience, evidence and reasons for leaving with her. I prayed with trembling hoping not to lose my wife. We prayed and talked and she saw the same LC sins, sicknesses and heresy that I saw and we both knew we could not in good conscience continue to be affiliated with a religious group claiming to be the top Christ followers on earth that had two masters: Christ and the church; Christ and the ministry; Christ and the Minister of the Age. By having more than Christ as their master the LC had demonstrated that it had left its first love and had no ground to shepherd our Christian lives. We also gently explained ourselves to adult relatives and friends in the LC. Some tried to intimidate us by inquiring about the “health” of our children, marriage and ability to go on with the Lord. One even said that my wife would be my salvation if she refused my leadership and prayer to leave the LC. We both knew that Christ is our only salvation, our salvation is not remaining in the LC. So, unlike your case we did not have parents or “controlling” adults that could cause us emotional harm.